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New Rule for Truck Drivers Expected to Save Lives
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People tend to associate impaired driving with alcohol and drugs, but driving while drowsy is also a kind of impaired driving. In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has estimated that, on average, 86,000 wrecks are due to drowsy driving each year, and drowsy driving annually causes about 885 deaths and 37,000 injurious crashes.
Of course, determining that driver fatigue caused an accident isn’t always easy, and the number of fatigue-related crashes is likely higher than the reported number.
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For good reason, driver fatigue has long been the focus of regulations in the trucking industry.
To prevent drowsy driving, truck and bus drivers are required by federal law to record their hours of service. Collisions with large commercial vehicles can be particularly devastating because of their size and weight, and commercial vehicle operators are subject to heightened safety standards.
For example, truck drivers are prohibited from driving more than 11 hours during a work shift, and bus drivers are limited to 10 driving hours per work shift. Violations of these and other hours-of-service rules too often lead to serious wrecks on Alabama highways and interstates.
A new hours-of-service rule from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is expected to save lives by reducing instances of driver fatigue.
The FMCSA recently issued a new rule requiring commercial vehicle operators to log their hours of service with Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) instead of paper logbooks.
While the majority of truck and bus drivers operate their vehicles responsibly and log their hours of service correctly, there have been cases of fraudulent record keeping involving paper logbooks. The new ELD requirement is meant to eliminate paper logbooks and replace them with more accurate and verifiable ELDs. These devices will also make it easier for safety inspectors to uncover any hours-of-service violations.
The FMCSA has estimated that the new rule will save an average of 26 lives and prevent an average of 562 injuries each year.
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Truck accidents are complex, and properly investigating them requires experience.
The attorneys of Clay, Massey & Associates have a record of success in obtaining compensation for truck accident victims in Mobile and the surrounding areas. Because of federal trucking regulations and the fact that multiple parties may be liable, these wrecks involve factors that collisions between passenger vehicles do not involve.
To learn more, please see our truck accident overview.
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